A memo by the Los Angeles Fire Department allegedly revealed plans to “protect” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass regarding her handling of the 2025 wildfires, according to a report.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) was reportedly in control of media strategy regarding the devastating 2025 wildfires.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), a former Navy SEAL and former aerial firefighter who founded the aerial firefighting company Bridger Aerospace, said the existing way of responding to wildfires is “woefully inaccurate” and requires better coordination on the federal, state, and county levels.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered the watering down of the after-action report following the crippling wildfires of January 2025, several sources confirmed to the Los Angeles Times.
President Donald Trump is helping Californians in Los Angeles recover faster from the wildfires that devastated their communities a year ago.
Authorities in Chile on Thursday arrested a suspect for setting the massive Biobio forest fire, which killed at least 21 people.
Devastating raging wildfires in southern Chile have left at least 19 dead and affected more than 1,500 local residents.
Spencer Pratt, most known for his starring turn on the hit reality TV show “The Hills,” revealed that he has been a registered Republican since 2020 just after announcing his run for Mayor of Los Angeles, which he pledged will be a non-partisan race.
One year ago, on the night of January 7, 2025, a devastating windstorm raged across the Los Angeles area, providing fuel to the most destructive wildfires in the city’s history — the Eaton Fire in Altadena and the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades. Breitbart News visited the site of the Eaton Fire on the eve of its anniversary, where the historic city of Altadena has been reduced to a land of empty lots with little reconstruction.
Spencer Pratt, most known for his starring turn on the hit reality TV show “The Hills,” announced his run for Mayor of Los Angeles one year after the Palisades Fire destroyed his home along with many others.
The House Judiciary Committee alleged in a report released on Tuesday that the FireAid relief money raised in the wake of the devastating Palisades and Eaton Fire last year went to various pet causes not connected to aiding fire victims.
A father of three teenagers said in December he is the first to rebuild his home in California’s Pacific Palisades and move back in after the devastating wildfires.
The Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of California are being rebuilt a year after the devastating wildfires, but the process will not be completely smooth.
The Los Angeles Fire Department watered-down its after-action report in the wake of the horrific Palisades fire.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades will be going offline again for repairs nearly one year after the devastating fire.
In the wake of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, the Halpin family went viral in a video of them singing the “Regina Caeli,” a Catholic hymn to the Virgin Mary in Latin, over the rubble of their historic home; nearly one year later, they returned to the reconstruction site to sing the hymn once again as a priest blessed their home.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is being challenged over her decision to spotlight a developer project as the “first home rebuilt” after the devastating Palisades fire, even though records show the project was planned and initiated before the blaze but formally permitted only after the original home was destroyed.
A lawsuit filed by over 3,000 Pacific Palisades residents has alleged the state of California failed to properly monitor the embers from a smoldering fire set by an arsonist roughly six days before it grew into the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history.
More than 70 percent of people who were affected by the Palisades Fire in California from January are still living in temporary housing, according to a report.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is continuing a familiar pattern of shifting attention away from the Pacific Palisades fire, this time focusing on climate change and insurance access instead of addressing his administration’s role in the disaster.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) need to “get off their asses,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said during a policy event with Breitbart News on Monday, discussing the aftermath of the devastating fire in the Palisades.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded an investigation of the Palisades Fire on Friday, after text messages revealed that city firefighters abandoned the burn scar of a January 1 fire with smoldering roots that later re-ignited.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said, through a spokesperson, that the state was not responsible for monitoring the burn scar of a January 1 fire (the “Lachman Fire”) that later erupted into the Palisades Fire on January 7.
California’s insurance companies are passing along the costs of the deadly Los Angeles fires to consumers, raising premiums, adding surcharges, and forcing them to subsidize the losses of the California FAIR plan.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) quietly signed legislation last month that will shield local utility companies from responsibility for wildfires and pass billions of dollars in costs to consumers and victims.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would require the state to develop a fire mitigation strategy, citing the cost — while spending $250 million on a vote to gerrymander congressional districts.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 79 on Friday, which fast-tracks high-rise development within half a mile of transportation hubs, provoking fears that the state would pursue densification in fire-ravaged areas.
The suspected arsonist arrested this week in connection to the Palisades fire allegedly ranted about President Trump and climate change.
The arrest of a suspect in the Palisades fire does not let California Governor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass off the hook.
Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly burned a bible prior to setting off the Palisades fire that took over 6,000 homes and 12 innocent lives.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) whined Wednesday that President Donald Trump has ignored his request for $40 billion in fire aid — after launching a $250 million special election to strip Republican House seats.
Residents of the Pacific Palisades reacted Wednesday to news of the arrest of an alleged arsonist in the January 7 Palisades Fire by noting that the arrest raises more questions about city and state fire responses.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) released its official after-action report on the Palisades Fire on Wednesday — and it completely omits any mention of the empty Santa Ynez reservoir during the fire.
The volunteer leader of the rebuilding effort for the city of Malibu, California, which was hit hard by the Palisades Fire in January, resigned in protest this week over the slow pace of permits to rebuild homes.
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara spent lavishly on travel across the country and around the world, billing taxpayers for California Highway Patrol protection, while missing key meetings in the state.
The Los Angeles County supervisors blasted a $1.9 million report Tuesday on the reasons for the catastrophic failure of a local evacuation system, whose delays likely contributed to 18 deaths during wildfires in January.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has written to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to ask for an accounting of how the State of California has spent federal funding his department allocated for wildfire prevention.
An “after-action” report prepared for Los Angeles County found this week that the county’s alert and evacuation systems suffered from weaknesses that led to disaster in the Palisades and Eaton fires in January.
Residents of Wadi al-Nasara, Syria, a region whose name translates to the “Valley of the Christians,” have denounced insufficient support from the newly installed Islamist government amid a wave of punishing forest fires that some local officials have blamed on “suspected arson.”
The California legislature has passed SB 79, which would override local zoning laws to build dense housing near transportation hubs. But residents of fire zones worry it will be used to densify their neighborhoods.
